With the recent surprise win for the left in the French elections, some may be tempted to think fascism is on the back foot. Unfortunately, that's not the ca...
I’m a Central Asian person living in Germany. I’m keenly aware of the threat to the lives and livelihoods of us, a threat that has been made ever more clear since October 7th. However, in terms of destructive force that can be unleashed onto the rest of the world, this wave of fascism is shaping up to be the farce to the tragedy it was last time around.
You make excellent points about the demographic situation and the like, and it’s great to read something positive like that. But it seems really off to be downplaying the threat that fascism poses to the world. To come out and say that it doesn’t have the destructive potential this time around is just wild, considering the fascists didn’t have a nuclear arsenal last time. And that’s not the only reason that it could be even worse in a WWIII scenario than it was in WWII, with the absence of anything like the Soviet Union now, as u/edge was pointing out.
I’m a Central Asian person living in Germany. I’m keenly aware of the threat to the lives and livelihoods of us, a threat that has been made ever more clear since October 7th. However, in terms of destructive force that can be unleashed onto the rest of the world, this wave of fascism is shaping up to be the farce to the tragedy it was last time around.
You make excellent points about the demographic situation and the like, and it’s great to read something positive like that. But it seems really off to be downplaying the threat that fascism poses to the world. To come out and say that it doesn’t have the destructive potential this time around is just wild, considering the fascists didn’t have a nuclear arsenal last time. And that’s not the only reason that it could be even worse in a WWIII scenario than it was in WWII, with the absence of anything like the Soviet Union now, as u/edge was pointing out.